Yes but I was once not able to get htaccess running without this plug in as you need URL rewrite to enforce https it is depending on hoster but one dot Com was no issue for me. It was working directly after enabling and editing .htaccess

Somian : By experience, the htaccess.txt has just to be renamed to .htaccess. Furthermore you have to ensure that mod_rewrite is activated on the server. The extension "Enforce Rewrite URL" mentioned by Fosphatic Duke helps pagekit to recognize if the apache module mod_rewrite is enabled.